Evangeline Thurston Wilder

Emergence: Toward a "State of the Field" Trans Studies Conference

Evangeline Thurston Wilder, a smiling white woman with light brown hair and bright pink glasses, wears an orange sweater over a blue striped collared shirt in front of a maroon background.

Evangeline Thurston Wilder is a PhD student in English Literary Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is interested in the intersection of DIY trans literary production, the emergent field of trans studies, and trans feelings and bodies. Previously, her work has investigated trans and Indigenous temporalities, lowbrow literary production, and the political efficacy of affect.She is worried about the institutionalization of trans knowledge and tries to bring trans experience and academic ways of knowing together in her work.